”Art is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. They say very similar things about science. In art there is this technical aspect – it’s so much time and effort and hard work to get to that stage where you can interpret your insight into its full beauty and potential.”

A singing physicist on YouTube. That is a short description of Tim Blais, the person behind the project and YouTube-channel A Capella Science. Through song – and using his voice as the only instrument – he explains entropy, string theory and CRISPR, the molecular scissors we talked about in our previous episode.

We talked to Tim Blais about how he combines physics and musics and why one should bother combining science and art. He also reveals that he would like to work on a science-themed musical and explains why it is so cool to create music without instruments.

We have recently welcomed our new intern, Virginia (Ginny) Stone to RadioScience. She will be working with us over the next few months and in readiness for the tasks ahead, Ginny has put together her own mini-podcast, which you can now listen to. Take a step away from science and learn about one of Ginny’s other loves, a lesser known sport in Sweden that goes by the name of netball….